YATES CENTER — If there were any qualms about support for rebuilding a local nursing home destroyed in a Friday fire, those were answered emphatically when more than 70 locals crammed into the fire station…

TOPEKA — Battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, staffing shortages and the strain of a population skewing older, the Kansas nursing home industry needs to be carefully monitored, advocates say.  “When you walk into an…

Work has begun to convert the old Arkhaven Nursing Home complex into a series of apartments in north Iola. Developer Shane Lamb, who owns the property at 1336 N. Walnut St., expects the first apartments…

COVID-19 didn’t lead Linda Milholland to retire from Windsor Place of Iola after 16 years, but it sure made the last couple of years a challenge. She retired at the end of the year as…

A developer who has restored old businesses elsewhere in the state hopes to do the same for the old Iola Nursing Center facility. Rocky Meo of Meo Development Co. LLP, De Soto, has applied for…

Iola officials will reach out to the owner of an old nursing home to see if the city can schedule a full inspection of the facility. But short of getting approval, there’s not much that…

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A nursing home where every resident has tested positive for the coronavirus in a rural Kansas county with the state’s highest infection rate has been warned that federal officials are moving…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A coronavirus outbreak has killed 10 residents in a nursing home in a northwestern Kansas county that proportionally already had the nation’s largest increase in cases over two weeks. The health…

Sharon Boan is a fan of the new “chat room” at Windsor Place.  Finally, after four months, the gregarious Iolan can visit her friends there.  Boan is but one of many who have been kept…

At least eight lawsuits have been filed against Riverbend Post-Acute Rehabilitation, the Kansas City, Kansas, nursing home where 132 patients and staff have tested positive for COVID-19 and 36 have died. Attorneys representing the nursing…